Last week, the Huffington Post ran a long, in-depth story about obesity in America and why so many people really struggle with it. Three main points in the story are that dieting, by and large, does not work for most people; that weight is not a reliable indicator of health — it is possible to be fat but healthy or skinny but unhealthy; and that our cultural stigma around fatness takes a terrible emotional toll on people and gets in the way of efforts to live healthfully.

Shorelines regularly shares posts about eating well and weight loss, and this well-reported story provides important context for people interested in those topics. If you can’t access the link, you can download a PDF version here. As ever, whatever your weight, the best health advice is to eat a variety of whole, nutritious foods as often as possible and to move your body on a daily basis.